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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein's office says the state is looking into roughly 650 price gouging reports as of Tuesday afternoon.

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The North Carolina Department of Transportation's Guilford County Division is sending employees to some of the hardest hit areas in the aftermath of Florence.

Hundreds of people waited in long lines for water and other essentials in Wilmington, still mostly cut off by rising water days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with more than 10,000 evacuees around the state not to return home yet.

Two years ago, from Hurricane Matthew and in 1999, from Hurricane Floyd, floodwaters came close to entering Joe Holmes' house in South Carolina, but he dodged those bullets.

When meteorologists downgraded Hurricane Florence from a powerful Category 4 storm to a Category 2 and then a Category 1, Wayne Mills figured he could stick it out.

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Emergency officials are breathing a sigh of relief after the Yadkin River crested below anticipated flood levels.

As of Sunday, more than 17,000 people had sought refuge from Florence in nearly 140 Red Cross and community shelters across North Carolina.